Open Office Quirk?

Douglas Furlong douglas.furlong at firebox.com
Wed Nov 17 14:59:47 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 08:59 -0500, cmilhaus wrote:
> I am running FC-3 on a P3-450, with 524 megs of Ram. It was a clean
> install, that reformatted the HD.
> There appears to be a running "quirk" regarding spell check and Open
> Office Writer. Whenever I am in a document, the first time I go to
> correct the spelling; it takes forever for spell check to kick in. By
> forever, I mean 30 to 45 seconds. Once it cranks up, it's fine for the
> rest of the document or the rest of the session.
> I am wondering if anyone else has had this experience, and if there
> are any ways to work around it. (This has been an issue since FC-2)(at
> least for me)
> If anyone can offer any pointers, this relative Linux newbie would
> greatly appreciate it.
I believe this delay is due to the spell checker dictionary being loaded
in to memory, some one mentioned that it was fixed in FC3, but I have
not tested it yet.


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Douglas Furlong
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